Indian GP axed from 2014 calendar

Formula 1 president Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that the Indian Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2014 calendar.

However, it will not be axed from the sport permanently, as the Buddh International Circuit will resume its’ five-year contract with F1 in the early stages of the 2015 season.

The race, which was first held in 2011, is scheduled for October later this year, and after attempting to move it to an earlier period next season, it was decided that it would be too much of a strain on the race organisers’ resources to host two races in such a short period of time.

It was always likely that at least one race was going to be dropped from next year’s calendar , with Grand Prix's in Russia, New Jersey and the returning Red Bull ring in Austria all being introduced, taking the total races up to 22.

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